Chapter 448: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada and the Yellow Sparrow Follows
Knowing that Chen Lan was going to take away a girl because he lost something in the room, Jiang was very annoyed that he had looked away, and naturally he had no objection. Early in the morning, Amber Niang was escorted out of the back of the mouth, and got into a carriage in despair, and a woman sat down in front of the carriage with her, and the coachman whipped up, and the carriage slowly moved forward. After the car was closed for a while, someone on the other side of the backstreet looked out, and then someone tiptoed up. When he reached the junction, the man quickly jumped into a mule cart that had stopped at the junction, and followed behind the carriage in front of him without hurry.
After the carriage left the city, the mule cart was still hanging far behind. It's just that at this time, there are already many people coming and going on the official road, and people pass by from time to time. It wasn't until we passed a three-way crossing that the mule cart behind suddenly rushed up, and when it passed by the carriage, with a creaking sound, the carriage behind it overturned in its entirety. At this moment, I only heard the neighing of horses, and the carriage in front of me overturned into the side of the road.
Such a sudden accident immediately affected the passage of official roads. For a while, there were people calling for help, some shouting, some making noise, but few people noticed that the driver of the mule cart behind them and the man inside all rushed into the crowd, and disappeared without a trace. Until the coachman and his wife who broke their heads came out, and shouted that the people in the back carriage were seriously injured and couldn't live, the people who were still helping or watching the excitement suddenly dispersed. After waiting for a long time, the car finally stopped, and together with the coachman, he carried the injured man into the back compartment without mentioning.
In the morning, Chongwen was busy at the tax customs, and even the tax supervisor Hu Pang came out in person, standing on the side of the road and glancing around with his fiery eyes. Seeing a familiar figure agile shuttling through the crowd, but from time to time he avoided the figure through others, as if he was following something, he suddenly wondered. Seeing people passing by, he wanted to speak, but after squinting his eyes for a long time, he vaguely saw who the guy was being followed, and he finally held back. When they disappeared, he stretched out his hand and called a henchman to come over.
"Go, when you go to the Yangning Marquis Mansion, the fourth young master is not there, if you are here, you will bring a word, saying that I saw the little brother Chu beside him. I happen to recognize the person that Brother Chu wants to follow, it is Liu Lao Liu, a helper in the Dengshikou Hutong of Dongcheng, and he also lives in the Dengshikou Hutong. Remember, if the fourth young master asks the details of this Liu Lao Liu again, he will say that I don't know. ”
"But, Master Hu, don't you know ......"
"Long-winded, just sell it well, people really want to check it and won't be able to find out, but when the time comes, they will think that we are troublesome!"
"Yes, yes, let's do it!"
The carriage out of the city suddenly overturned, and the people inside were seriously injured, and the news reached Chen Lan's ears very quickly. She was threading the needle and thread without paying attention, the needle was pricked on her finger, she hurriedly dropped something and put her finger in her mouth and took it, and after a while, the bleeding stopped, and she smiled slightly: "It seems that I am really not worried, some people have to do things absolutely nothing!" ”
"Madam, do you want to send someone to the medical hall in Dengshikou Hutong?"
"Send a woman to take a look."
Chen Lan nodded, and when Aunt Yun came out of the house, she asked Aunt Liu to go to the Jiang family again, and beat Yun'er to the outside tent to take down the roster, and she leaned back on the recliner. No matter what fateful occasion the initiator wants to use his golden hairpin, as long as Hu Niang can't open her mouth, then the so-called theft lawsuit will not be clear to her Chen Lan, and there are some things that others can blame her. If others insist on proving this matter to death, the more it shows that the matter is important.
But for what?
"Madam, the old man sent a letter from the tiger master to come back."
When she heard these words in her ears, Chen Lan sat up straight, and saw that Aunt Yun had turned around, with a smile on her face, she couldn't help but say with a slight annoyance: "People are now officers, and he still sends people around as if they were his own entourage, and he is not afraid of others saying that he is a fake public servant." It's Ah Hu......"
"Madam, I am happy to do it, besides, I don't feel at ease when I send someone else."
Hearing this voice coming from the bright room, Chen Lan couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then turned his head to look at Aunt Yun. At this time, Aunt Yun hurriedly bowed down and leaned close to her ear, and whispered: "The old lady said that Hengzhi has something to bring to Madame, so please come over directly, and the others have already been ordered to avoid it." Besides, something like this has just happened here, and it's hard to keep it unreliable, so Madame might as well see him outside in the open room. ”
There are only three masters in the Mirror Garden, and the so-called rules, as long as the Jiang family nods, they are all not the same thing. Therefore, at this time, Chen Lan also took advantage of the situation to help Aunt Yun get up, and stayed outside in the bright room, seeing Qin Hu standing there motionless, she couldn't help but smile slightly, and sat on the main seat.
"Thanks to Shuquan having you by his side, otherwise he said that the wind is the rain, and others would not be able to cope with it."
"Madame's got the prize." Qin Hu smiled innocently, and then said without raising his head, "My lord asked me to come back for three things. First, this morning, the emperor abolished the brocade guard. ”
"What?" This news really startled Chen Lan, and after a while, he calmed down and asked, "After the removal of this brocade guard, where will the manpower go?" ”
"Merge into the Heavenly Guard, as a royal attendant." Qin Hu had never thought about this, so he said according to Yang Jinzhou's instructions at this time, "Anyway, as soon as this proposal came out, there were those who opposed the change of the ancestral system among the ministers, and there were also those who applauded loudly, in short, there was a big uproar. It's just that the adults said that Tian Cewei is in the forbidden palace every day, in fact, it is no different from the previous Jinyi Guard, but this name is missing, and there is no name for detectives. This second piece is that the second master Zhang moved to Dali Temple. ”
The so-called second master Zhang is Zhang Quan, the eldest princess of Anguo. It's just that this political envoy who was a guest of honor before has become a concubine, and now he has become a concubine, and no one has pronounced these two words, even the officials who talked about the honor of the eldest princess of Anguo are at most the second child of the Zhang family. However, this time Zhang Quan's sudden transfer to Dali Siqing, Chen Lan could feel the uproar in the court even if he thought about it a little.
So, while she was pondering the first two pieces of news over and over again, she suddenly realized again: "Didn't you say that there are three things?" Is there any other great news? ”
"This third ......" Qin Hu was originally very arrogant, but at this moment, he suddenly hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "This third thing is that the adults happened to see the royal eunuch Xia Gonggong, so he quietly asked about the red eaves and the cui building. Father-in-law Xia said that the red eaves and green buildings around the imperial concubine were originally arranged by Niangniang to sleep with the emperor, but after all, the matter did not work out, and the two of them still served Niangniang, it is said that Niangniang was seriously ill before, and planned to die with him, probably because of this, Niangniang was moved, and this entrusted the person out. They are born to be beautiful, and they are used to staying in the palace, and they may not be able to stay outside, and now that one is dead, the other should also ask the old lady to settle down, and it may not be good to stay around. ”
"Grandpa Xia actually said that......"
Chen Lan chuckled in his heart, thinking of the abnormal death of Hongwei and the strange rhetoric of Cuilou, he suddenly had a theft lawsuit here, and the carriage sent out suddenly overturned...... Gradually, she managed to string these things together in her mind. So, after instructing Qin Hu to follow Yang Jinzhou closely, just take care of the camp training, and don't mention the affairs at home, she asked Aunt Yun to send someone out, and she went back to the West House, and casually pulled a piece of paper to write and draw on it.
When a piece of originally snow-white writing paper was written in a mess by her ink, she frowned unconsciously, threw it into a ball and threw it into the writing paper basket, and shouted loudly: "Someone! ”
The bamboo shadow guarding outside responded to the voice: "What does Madame command?" ”
Chen Lan didn't care that the three people who came in were not what he was used to, and ordered in a deep voice: "Send someone to the Yangning Marquis Mansion to deliver a letter, please come over today." ”
To Chen Lan's surprise, in the evening of this day, Chu Ping's people who had been busy all day had not yet returned, but Chen Yan came, and even brought a Xiao Lang. This was the first time Chen Lan had seen this Zhendong Marquis after returning to Beijing, and as soon as she looked at him, she only felt that although this person was still with a cold face, she didn't say a few words, and the kind of jīn that was different from the past was unconsciously revealed. Until the Jiang family was still joking and joking as before, Xiao Lang gradually revealed a gentleness that was rarely shown in front of people.
"By the way, how did you come with Xiao Si so coincidentally?"
"It's not a coincidence, it was when Sigong took someone to go, I had something there, but the two sides didn't see each other, and they almost clashed." Xiao Lang glanced at Chen Yan, and smiled when he saw people, there was always some indescribable weakness on his face, he said, "In short, the matter was a misunderstanding, so he invited me to come to Jingyuan, saying that he borrowed my aunt to apologize to me, and I came." ”
"I see!"
Although Chen Lan didn't fully understand what was going on, he knew from Xiao Lang's tone that Chen Yan didn't cause any big 1un after all, so he immediately smiled and helped the two of them to get over. Keeping the two of them for dinner, and laughing with the Jiang family for a while, she personally sent the two out of the Cherished Blessing Residence. But when she walked out of the hall, she stopped Xiao Lang.
"Sister-in-law, maybe find a convenient place to talk?"
At this time, it was completely dark, if there was only one Chen Yan, Chen Lan could still directly bring people back to the Yiqing Pavilion, but there was one more Xiao Lang, she couldn't help but think for a moment, and then nodded and said, "In this way, I will go to Shuquan's Hanhaizhai to talk." ”
Aunt Yun and Aunt Liu glanced at each other, and the latter immediately retreated silently. Hongying and Changdi have already married Xiaoding Xiaowu, and Yiqing Pavilion can't use so many housekeepers' daughters-in-law, plus after returning to Beijing, it's better to be strict inside and outside than outside, and they haven't come back to take care of it for a while, but at this time, they can't take care of that much